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Tens of millions of people around the world are financially invested in the outcomes of NCAA Tournament games. The schools stand to reap major financial windfalls via surging TV revenue, merchandise sales, and ticket sales if their teams do well. Individual players could see their NBA draft stock skyrocket with a couple of clutch performances, which […]

With the 2013 NCAA Tournament getting underway today, we can all stop pretending to be Vegas bookies and go back to doing what we do best: being college basketball fans. This, really, is a good thing. Impartial observers don’t make college hoops fun. Fans do. After all, if every team in the Big Dance didn’t […]

It’s crunch time, sports fans. You’ve got a little less than a day to get those NCAA Tournament brackets filled out. And if you need a little help making your selections, well, that’s what the President of the United States is for, right? On Wednesday, ESPN did their annual segment on SportsCenter in which President […]

The Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball team had a rough year by their standards. They followed up their National Championship by going 21-11 overall and 12-6 in the SEC, and missing the NCAA Tournament. However, they were on the bubble for the Tournament. They finished ahead of Missouri in the SEC standings, and Missouri is in […]

The NCAA Tournament starts in earnest on Thursday (no, sorry, I don’t count the play-in games), so you’re probably pretty busy studying team stats and filling in your brackets. However, once the brackets are in and the time comes to sit back and watch the games, you’re going to need something to talk about with […]

Let the Madness begin! The field for the 2013 NCAA Tournament has been selected, and you have approximately three days to fill out your brackets for most pools and contests. Which top dogs will make good on their hype? I have no idea. But I do know that since 1985, 89.3% of the tournaments have […]

Ole Miss isn’t exactly a college basketball powerhouse. However, what they lack in NCAA Tournament pedigree, they make up for with cocky shooting guards with a knack for getting under people’s skin. I am talking, of course, about Marshall Henderson, the most interesting player in the 2013 NCAA Tournament. This kid simply loves antagonizing people, […]

Beyond Kentucky and Florida, and I guess (to a lesser extent) the underachieving Missouri, we don’t expect much from the SEC when it comes to basketball. Sure, there are a few other programs that were historically significant and are respectable now, like Arkansas and LSU. But this is a conference that exists for football and […]

Most people give the 1985 New York Giants credit for popularizing (if not inventing) the Gatorade shower—that great American victory celebration in which a team dumps a cooler of the beverage on their coach. The Giants did it to coach Bill Parcels in ’85 after a big win over the Redskins, and ever since then […]

Yesterday, the Liberty University Flames men’s basketball team made history by winning the 2013 Big South Conference tournament, earning an automatic invitation to the 2013 NCAA Tournament. Why was it historic? Well, it wasn’t because this will be their first trip to the big dance, or anything like that. It was historic because the Flames […]

I would never accuse basketball players of being soft. Basketball is a very physical sport, and to get the ball to the basketball you’ve got to endure a lot of hacks and elbows. So I’d classify high level basketball players as being pretty tough. That being said, very few of them are quite as tough […]

Do you like a good basketball fight? Well, that’s good. Last night in South Bend, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men’s basketball team hosted the St. John’s Red Storm. The visitors did pretty well in the first half, taking a 26-22 lead into the locker room; however, the second half was a different story. The […]

Small liberal arts colleges like William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, don’t make sports headlines very often. The school of 4,000 students doesn’t compete in NCAA Division I athleteics, nor do they compete in NCAA Division II, or even Division III athletics. Rather, they compete in the NAIA and play in the Southern States Athletic […]

There are a few things I’d enjoy less than listening to music by Kesha. Smashing my thumb in the car door comes to mind, or maybe taking a big swig of spoiled milk. However, for the Minnesota Golden Gophers basketball team, apparently, listing to Kesha constitutes a reward for a job well done. I guess […]

Last night’s big game between Duke and North Carolina at the former’s Cameron Indoor Stadium was a good one. The #2-ranked Blue Devils brought out the best in the unranked Tar Heels, but pulled away just a bit at the end to close out a 73-68 victory. That wasn’t the only game involved in this […]